If Heyerdahl needed any more motivation to prove his theory, he got it. “Sure, see how far you get yourself sailing from Peru to the South Pacific on a balsa raft!” they taunted. Thor shared his thoughts with several leading anthropologists, who laughed him out the room. He observed that the Pacific Islands had vegetation native to South America and theorised the origins of the Pacific Islanders must have arrived from the east (South America) instead of the widely accepted west (not South America). Well, good ol’ Thor was one smart cookie. “But why did they sail the Pacific Ocean on nothing more than a raft?” I hear you say. Where Contiki has their drunken tour leader, Nathan, Kon-Tiki had their fearless captain, Thor Heyerdahl. Where Contiki has boat race drinking games, Kon-Tiki had a raft weathering the treacherous Pacific Ocean. In fact, I thought Contiki was the bus tour company who drive drunken Australians around the world. You don’t know the courageous tale of the Kon-Tiki? To be honest, neither did I. During the process of creating Castaway, our Polynesian inspired Mai Tai Double IPA, our minds wandered to the great Kon-Tiki Expedition of 1947.
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